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The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide
Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A much-needed resource for teaching English to all learners
The number of English language learners in U.S. schools is projected to grow to twenty-five percent by 2025. Most teachers have English learners in their classrooms, from kindergarten through college. The ESL/ELL Teacher?s Survival...
Not Intimidating
Teaching Different Reading Genres to a Diverse Student Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2019
Teaching genres of fiction, non-fiction, and media need not intimidate new to middle school teachers who may be recent college graduates or veterans transitioning from elementary or high school. Here are strategies for designing culturally relevant lessons that include firm and fair grading guidelines,...
Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms
Integrating Form-Focused Instruction in Communicative Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Recent SLA research recognizes the necessity of attention to grammar and demonstrates that form-focused instruction is especially effective when it is incorporated into a meaningful communicative context. Designed specifically for second-language teachers, this text identifies and explores the various...
Beyond Tolerance
Real World Literacy Teaching and Learning for PreK-6
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Beyond Tolerance is a hopeful, optimistic book focused on creating positive and sustained social change through engagement with beautiful, sometimes complex, and consistently interesting multiethnic children’s literature. It presents a fresh perspective on race and ethnicity. Additionally, it features...
by Maria Dakowska
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our understanding have for foreign language...
First Time Up
An Insider'S Guide For New Composition Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
"First time up?"—an insider’s friendly question from 1960s counter-culture—perfectly captures the spirit of this book. A short, supportive, practical guide for the first-time college composition instructor, the book is upbeat, wise but friendly, casual but knowledgeable (like the voice...
Electronic Literacies
Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Electronic Literacies is an insightful study of the challenges and contradictions that arise as culturally and linguistically diverse learners engage in new language and literacy practices in online environments.
The role of the Internet in changing literacy and education has been a topic of...
Focus on Text
Tackling the Common Core Reading Standards, Grades 4-8
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there’s a resource with all of these answers and...
by Pamela Bell, Ph.D., Brian Bryant Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Prepare future educators to strengthen the literacy skills of students in Grades 6–12 with this introductory reading textbook, based on the latest research, the Common Core State Standards, and recommended instructional practices. The perfect first text on adolescent literacy, this expertly...
by Greta Gorsuch, Dale Griffee
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research and its accompanying Student Workbook are introductory?level resources for classroom teachers of all levels of experience, and early?career graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and second/foreign language teaching programs....
by Greta Gorsuch, Dale Griffee
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research and its accompanying Student Workbook are introductory?level resources for classroom teachers of all levels of experience, and early?career graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and second/foreign language teaching programs....
Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty...
Aspects of Teaching Secondary Science
Perspectives on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book's structure reflects the different dimensions to learning science. The first section focuses on the importance of talk in the science classroom, while the second explores the key role of practical work. The third section is concerned with the creative, theoretical aspect of science. Section...
by Janette K. Klingner, PhD, Sharon Vaughn
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques...